While under the control of that organization, it crossed the Isar River at Granek on 30 April 1945, advanced to Indorf, seized several small villages, and was driving toward Wasserburg against slight resistance when ordered to return to Nürnberg.

[1] This did not stop fanatical German SS Troops from continuing to fight both Czechoslovakian and, as they arrived, American forces.

They advanced along the Bor–Plzeň Road that same day, launching an attack on Plzeň, Czechoslovakia, designed to capture the Skoda Munitions Plant.

Combat Command Reserve (CCR) advanced through Plzeň to assigned high ground east of the city.

[2] General Patton ordered elements of the 16th AD to move towards Prague, where the German commander was waiting to surrender to US forces, but the troops were recalled to Plzeň per the agreement with the Soviet Union.

[1] Aside from the few hours on the road to Prague, the capture of Plzeň marked the deepest point of American penetration into Czechoslovakia.